Shirley Chisholm was proudly 'unbossed'

4:41 AM,
Nov. 30, 2013

Shirley Chisholm in 1972

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"The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side they will be counted, they excuse themselves."

Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was elected to represent New York's 12th Congressional District in 1968, and when she got to the Capitol she did not take long to set her colleagues, of all spectra, straight.

"Of my two handicaps, being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black," she would tell folks. ...